HTC announced the Touch Diamond, the latest in a number of phones that are taking aim directly at the iPhone. The device has some pretty nice interface technology that they’re calling TouchFLO 3D that emphasizes one-touch browsing and single-finger dialing.

They emphasized web accessibility, zoom-in navigation with “just one hand” and not too many fingers. The quad-band smartphone runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and has integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, and HSDPA support.

Featuring a sharp 2.8-inch, 680×480 VGA touch screen housed within a stunning formation of brushed steel and flawless faceted edges, the HTC Touch Diamond is as beautiful to behold as it is to use. It does include a front-mounted camera for video conferencing, which has been a rumored feature of the next generation iPhone.

With HTC’s vibrant touch-responsive user interface, TouchFLO™ 3D, and ultra-fast HSDPA internet connectivity, the HTC Touch Diamond offers a rich online experience to rival a notebook computer, allowing you to interact with Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia as freely as you would with a broadband connection.

A 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera will help you capture the perfect moment in style and with a massive 4GB of internal storage you can keep all the files you need. The integrated ultra-sensitive GPS will help you find your destination as quickly and efficiently as a dedicated satellite navigation unit. Other goodies include a 256MB flash memory, and 192MB RAM.

HTC is a established company which is a player in the smartphone market for 10 years, is known for providing and offering a wide range of devides. It is now widely considered to be the market leader when it comes to Windows Mobile handsets with broad variety of designs.

We can say It has done petite and powerful, and even gone above and beyond traditional smart phones, with the introduction of the HTC Shift and HTC Advantage. And now they introduce the world their latest creation and design — the HTC Touch which is really petite at 3.9 inches long by 2.3 inches wide by 0.5 inch thick and weighing 3.9 ounces.

Instead of supply the Touch with a standard Windows Mobile implementation, they’ve chosen to do something a little different. Known formerly as the Elf, the Touch features Windows Mobile 6 and a technology called TouchFLO with a 2.8 inches, 65,536 color, 240×320 pixel finger-touch display.

Using a technology TouchFLO™, HTC have made the Touch very much easier to control with a finger rather than a stylus. The Touch automatically distinguished between a stylus and a finger. Like the iPhone, the motions are preprogrammed to perform certain actions. For example, you can use your fingers to navigate the phone’s menus, swiping your thumb in an upward motion lauches a page where you can access contacts, applications or media. You can close out of applications by swiping downward.

HTC Touch is a tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz GSM device with GPRS, EDGE, 802.11 b/g WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. It runs Window Mobile 6 Professional Edition and it support for push e-mail. It also features 128MB ROM or 64MB RAM, and there is a 1GB microSD card in the standard sales package. It’s also equipped with a 2-megapixel camera and is rated for 5 hours of talk time and up to 8 days of standby time.